[PlanetCCRMA] laptop up

[Joe Hartley]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:25:25 -0800
Jonathan Segel <jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com> wrote:
> the hardest part of the entire setup was getting the damn wlan to 
> work. if anybody is a master of this sort of thing, plese email me. i 
> have managed, but it's semi-mysterious.

I've set up WLANs on a number of Linux laptops.  I'll bet you a nickle
that you're running into the same problem I always see.

For some insane reason, the pcmcia startup stuff comes *after* the
network startup stuff.  (Isn't a network card the most common use for
the PCMCIA slot???)

At any rate, here's the fix that works for me:  in /etc/rc.d/rc0.d,
rc1.d, and rc6.d change the link to pcmcia kill script from whatever 
it is to K96pcmcia, and then in /etc/rc.d/rc2.d, rc3.d, rc4.d and rc5.d
change the startup link to be S09pcmcia.

Here's the ls from my laptop, running RH9, to show what I mean:

[root@miles /etc]# ls -lR rc.?/*/*pcm*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         4590 Jan 25  2003 rc.d/init.d/pcmcia
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep  5 06:31 rc.d/rc0.d/K96pcmcia -> ../init.d/pcmcia
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep  5 06:31 rc.d/rc1.d/K96pcmcia -> ../init.d/pcmcia
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep  5 06:31 rc.d/rc2.d/S09pcmcia -> ../init.d/pcmcia
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep  5 06:31 rc.d/rc3.d/S09pcmcia -> ../init.d/pcmcia
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep  5 06:31 rc.d/rc4.d/S09pcmcia -> ../init.d/pcmcia
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep  5 06:31 rc.d/rc5.d/S09pcmcia -> ../init.d/pcmcia
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep  5 06:31 rc.d/rc6.d/K96pcmcia -> ../init.d/pcmcia

Hope this helps!

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